When issuing a SAS/CONNECT SIGNON to a SAS/CONNECT Application Server defined in the SAS metadata from a SAS session that cannot prompt, the SIGNON fails with the following errors if the metadata credentials are incorrect or missing:

If credentials are incorrect or missing in the metadata, the SIGNON does the following:

• fails with the above errors from a batch SAS session or a SAS server (SAS Workspace Server), which cannot prompt for SAS/CONNECT SIGNON 
• prompts for valid credentials from a SAS session that can handle prompting such as a SAS interactive Display Manager session

If you receive the above errors, complete these steps to work around the issue:

1. Run the following code to verify that the SAS/CONNECT application server exists by listing all the SAS/CONNECT servers defined in the metadata and their associated AUTHDOMAIN:     
   SIGNON SERVERV=_ALL_; 
2. Verify the value for the METAUSER= SAS option by executing the following code:    
   PROC OPTIONS GROUP=META;
   RUN;
3. Use SAS^® Management Console to verify that the user ID specified for the METAUSER= contains the following:
   • a metadata identity
   • an external account for the same AUTHDOMAIN as the SAS/CONNECT server
   • a valid user ID and password specified for the external account 

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